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20 Go, my people, enter into your chambers
    and shut your doors[a] behind you;
hide for a very little[b] while,
    until the wrath has passed over.
21 For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place
    to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants[c] of the earth against him,
and the earth will disclose her blood
    and will no longer cover her slain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:20 The reading tradition (Qere) is singular
  2. Isaiah 26:20 Literally “a little a little”
  3. Isaiah 26:21 Hebrew “inhabitant”

20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
    and shut the doors(A) behind you;
hide(B) yourselves for a little while
    until his wrath(C) has passed by.(D)
21 See, the Lord is coming(E) out of his dwelling(F)
    to punish(G) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood(H) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

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